How to Devastate your Linux OS – Try Fork Bomb

I came across this ultimately killing,lethal command that is said to hang up your Linux system and crash it down by activating large number of processes one after the another , this is also known as ForkBomb because this is what this command actually does, this Linux command will keep on forking new processes until your system goes down with resources and hangs up, this would be a nice command to show the superiority of man over machine just type it at your shell prompt and let the destruction begin .

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